child labor

A biography of Craig Kielburger, co-founder of the worldwide Me to We and Free the Children organizations and a champion for children's rights.

Renata and her friends learn about children around the world who do not have time to play because they have to work and try to come up with a solution to the problem.

Luka, a Ukrainian boy working in a slave labor camp, plays dead after an explosion at the factory and escapes, eventually joining a resistance group that opposes both the Nazis and the Soviets, and through the danger of the guerilla fighting he has two overriding goals--find out if his parents are still alive, and reunite with Lida, a girl who was a friend in the labor camp.

Provides information about working conditions in the United States in the early 1800s through the story of Molly Castle, a twelve-year-old girl who takes a job in the home of a Chicago suffragette after the deaths of her parents.

A readers' theater script for six cast members that describes the working conditions of children in mills in the early 20th century.

Explores what life was like for a child laborer during the Industrial revolution, why children were used for factory labor, and how policies on child labor changed over time.

A fictionalized account of the Pakistani child who escaped from bondage in a carpet factory and went on to help liberate other children like him before being gunned down at the age of thirteen.

As a child, Emma Malloy left isolated Coal River, Pennsylvania, vowing never to return. Now, orphaned and penniless at nineteen, she accepts a train ticket from her aunt and uncle and travels back to the rough-hewn community. Treated like a servant by her relatives, Emma works for free in the company store. There, miners and their impoverished families must pay inflated prices for food, clothing, and tools while those who owe money are turned away to starve. Though Emma's actions draw ire from the mine owner and police captain, they lead to an alliance with a charismatic miner who offers to help her expose the truth. And as the lines blur between what is legal and what is just, Emma must risk everything to follow her conscience.